A New Space Telescope is Giving Us New Insights Into Gamma Ray Bursts

The Einstein Probe is a collaboration between Europa and China and was designed to detect flashes of low-energy X-rays, so-called "soft X-rays." Recently, the Probe automatically detected a 17-minute-long flash in brightness, known as a fast X-ray transient. Other astronomers made follow-on observations and confirmed that it was a blast of radiation that happened when the Universe was just over a billion years old: a gamma-ray burst near the dawn of time. The post A New Space Telescope is Giving...